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Thread Number: 9254
Load that i am washing right now in the Frigidaire Front Loader |
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| Post# 171864 , Reply# 1 12/3/2006 at 18:42 (6,353 days old) by exploder321 () | ||
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Ok.. It can't spin that much stuff too well, keeps going off balance... | ||
| Post# 171897 , Reply# 2 12/3/2006 at 20:01 (6,353 days old) by exploder321 () | ||
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Ok.. I am confused... My frigidaire could spin fine with all of the above load minus 2 pairs of jeans... Why? | ||
Post# 171903 , Reply# 3 12/3/2006 at 20:10 (6,353 days old) by appnut  (TX) |
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Post# 171907 , Reply# 4 12/3/2006 at 20:22 (6,353 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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I don't think you had too much in the machine, it just wasn't balanced. Every once in awhile I'll get a load that has trouble going into the first couple of spins because of balance issues. It always seems to work itself out by the final spin, though. The only load which ended the cycle without a final spin was when I tried to wash 1 pillow with nothing else in the tub. | ||
| Post# 171931 , Reply# 5 12/3/2006 at 21:26 (6,353 days old) by exploder321 () | ||
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It was the final spin it couldn't do.. It would get up so far and then stop and tumble a few seconds and try again.. How does one balance one of these?? | ||
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Post# 172094 , Reply# 6 12/4/2006 at 09:22 (6,352 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 172190 , Reply# 7 12/4/2006 at 14:24 (6,352 days old) by nurdlinger (Tucson AZ) |
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Toggle, | ||
| Post# 172263 , Reply# 8 12/4/2006 at 18:54 (6,352 days old) by exploder321 () | ||
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Mine does (sort of).... I just have to wait a minuet b4 trying to open the door | ||
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Post# 172345 , Reply# 9 12/4/2006 at 21:21 (6,352 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Just curious: If the unbalanced load won't go into a spin, does it keep trying to balance and spin or does the timer advance and shut off at some point? How long did it try to spin with your unbalanced load? Did it shut itself off or did you cancel the cycle yourself? My '03 Frigidaire will try for awhile, then the timer starts to advance. I've heard some new FL'ers will do the balancing protocol for 15-20 minutes before it finally spins. | ||
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Post# 172359 , Reply# 11 12/4/2006 at 22:06 (6,352 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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You must have a 3.1cft FridGeMore. Actually I have the older one with a mechanical timer. I can't figure out a way to open the door unless the machines goes through its "shut-down" routine on its own. HOW DOES THE DOOR LOCK WORK? Signal to lock, then a signal to unlock? During most of the wash phase, I can just ppower-down by pushing in the main contol knob on the timer and the door unlocks immediately and opens. After that wash-phase, NFW *No f-ing way. (As in feasable.) 
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| Post# 172363 , Reply# 12 12/4/2006 at 22:12 (6,352 days old) by exploder321 () | ||
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I just pause mine, leave it alone for a minute or two and thats it... | ||
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Post# 172365 , Reply# 13 12/4/2006 at 22:13 (6,352 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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Togs---I have the same machine. You can open the door later in the cycle, but it takes a couple of minutes. Depress the control knob, then wait about 3-4 minutes. Voila! The door, she opens! Did you watch the new vid I made of the Frigi TL'er? It's in the Super forum. This one shows the long spray rinse during the first spin. | ||
| Post# 172368 , Reply# 14 12/4/2006 at 22:24 (6,352 days old) by exploder321 () | ||
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I take it this is no longer in use? | ||
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Post# 172427 , Reply# 15 12/5/2006 at 08:05 (6,351 days old) by nurdlinger (Tucson AZ) |
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Alright, here's what I meant...
On my Kenmore 44092 (same as GLTF2940), there is no ability to modify the cycle or skip forward or anything besides the "add a garment" feature while in wash phase. This seems similar to what Toggle posted a couple of items ago. So, earlier in the thread, a corrective action for inability to balance the load and let it spin fast was to open the door and rearrange the contents. With my computerized machine, and I am assuming the Affinity is similar in this respect, the only thing you can do is to abort the cycle. You can't interrupt it to perform this rearrangement. I had thought that the older 3.1cft machines which have the mechanical timer switch could be paused at any point by pushing in the knob, at which time the door would get unlocked, and then subsequently the cycle could be resumed from the point of interruption by pulling the switch back out. I got this impression from watching a vendor-produced instructional video about these machines a year ago or so. Toggle, however, reports that once the wash cycle is over (which is before any spinning occurs) the door stays locked on those machines as well. So, how can the advice of rearranging the load be put into practice?
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Post# 172436 , Reply# 16 12/5/2006 at 08:23 (6,351 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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I am forced ( at least I thought so) to wait till the cycle finishes, then do my magic. I wil try to wait the 3 to 4 minutes. Perhaps a wax motor is in play! My machine is still in service. I had it ready to be donated to my mom. But no rush, the house has not yet sold. I bought a ner BOL GE top-loader that matches the dryer I have, to leave behind wehn I trander title. | ||
| Post# 172542 , Reply# 17 12/5/2006 at 16:02 (6,351 days old) by bpetersxx (laf in on the banks of the Wabash River) | ||
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